A GUAN-TYPE 'THREE RAMS' VASE, ZUN SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

the tapering body rising to rounded shoulders applied with three ram heads, sweeping up to a waisted neck and a flared rim, covered overall in a thick opaque greyish-blue glaze suffused with a network of dark grey and golden crackles, save for the unglazed footring dressed in a dark brown slip, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Sekai kobijutsu tenrankai [Antiques of the World exhibition], Yamanaka & Co. and Tokyo Art Club, Osaka and Tokyo, 1932, cat. no. 688.